You have an idea for a new feature on the site, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Why must I wait 5s after deleting my own comment to perform any other comment actions?
If I delete a comment of mine, and then try to upvote a following comment, the upvote is rejected, with the message "You may only submit a comment vote every 5 seconds":
Apparently, my deletion of ...
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Why can only established users view vote counts?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the threat to either the site or to individual contributors if all are allowed to see this information.
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Suggest MSE to taking on the system upgrade for improving the categorization system of the questions
Currently, MSE use tags as the only ways of the categorization system of the questions. Facing on growing numbers of questions and tags, controversies about appropriate tagging also increase with time ...
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1answer
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Can we get a $\LaTeX$ button?
I would like to propose the addition of a $\LaTeX$ button. It would be very similar to the "code" button that formats the highlighted text into code, the $\LaTeX$ button would surround the highlighted ...
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Having to log in to see the Hot | Week | Month
I don't like that the Hot | Week | Month feature no longer appears unless I log in.
I don't like the big welcome box taking up most of the screen unless I log in.
I object to having to log in to ...
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1answer
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Number of helpful flags in elections
A question I had about the "helpful flags"-field in the ongoing elections:
Would it be an idea to not only list the number of flags deemed helpful, but also the total number of flags (or the number ...
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2answers
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Sharing a link to a question with another Math.SE user
Currently there seems to be no functionality available to share a link to an unanswered or already answered question with another Math.SE user.
Indeed, if the question has no answers, then scrolling ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to add a question to the watchlist?
Is there a way to add a question to a kind of a watchlist in order to get notifications when e.g. there is a new answer or a new comment posted there? I would like to use this, for example, for a ...
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Privacy settings
Is it possible to edit privacy settings on SE? For example, is it possible for me to be able to make it so that people can't see the questions I ask when they view my profile?
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1answer
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Unable to upvote comments when reviewing close votes
Whenever I am reviewing the close votes on the main site, I often (perhaps always) encounter the issue that I am unable to upvote comments to the question from the review screen, but have to open up ...
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2answers
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The return key returns
I recently found out that on mathoverflow.net, when keying in comments, pressing the return/enter key doesn't submit the comment; rather it does the most sensible thing, i.e., goes to the next line. I ...
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1answer
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Why can I vote more than positions
It seems unreasonable that I can vote more number of candidates than the posts available like in recent election.
I am requesting feature request to adjust this.
It is reasonable that while voting I ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to make a reference request within MSE questions/answers?
I've seen questions such as:
What are the best real analysis books that take a standard approach to some of the basic theorems.
Is it ok to make a reference-request question asking about the ...
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Would MSE be open to a checkbox for “minor edits” of questions.
Recently, I was working on a challenging question where I hoped to get all the details right and to make sure that the mathematical notation was as easy on the eye as possible.
I was nervous about ...
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1answer
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Including supplemental code inside a markdown comment
Is there a way to include supplemental code in a math.se post, without necessarily displaying the code as part of an answer - perhaps, as a comment in the markdown itself?
For example, we often see ...
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2answers
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Can we have a graphing tool for Math.SE?
Post linked with this MSO post
Graphing tool is very important for answering and asking some questions in Math.
Graphing tool must include the function plotting and drawing some free shapes
Few ...
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0answers
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Would like to see more ways to help out.
I would really like more ways to be able to give back to the community, i find myself in a position where i contribute little to nothing to the site. There are very few questions i can actually answer ...
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0answers
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Enabling tag links in wiki excerpts?
I just suggested a change for the logic tag wiki and excerpt on main, see here or here.
It was accepted, but I note that the [tag:tag-name] functionality does not ...
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0answers
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Proposal: don't show poster's name until upvote/downvote
I have been following this site for a while. It seems to me that certain people get lots of upvotes simply because of who they are. And newbies always get downvotes.
So I suggest that when you post ...
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2answers
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How to ensure candidates pre-commit for next election
This is a follow up to How can we best judge who has the skills to be a moderator? . Two moderators have recently resigned, and they say there will be another election soon. Some recent elections had ...
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0answers
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$\TeX$ in super-collider drop down thing
Feature request to get $\TeX$ markup working in the drop down box. I'm often annoyed by unreadable question titles from math.stackexchange.com appearing in there. ...
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1answer
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Proposal: Stop displaying the downvotes or upvotes corresponding to an answer
Here is why:
It is probably backed by insufficient data but it is possible
a) People often vote up a post because it was already upvoted by others.
b) More importantly, people downvote some posts ...
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3answers
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Proposal: make the “interesting” tab the default on Math.SE homepage
Proposal: change the default home page tab of Math.SE from active to interesting.
Explanation and Rationale. Math.SE is the second most active SE site by the number of questions per day, ...
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3answers
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Late answers - a mechanism for getting a fair share of upvotes?
It is a not unheard of phenomenon that answers don't get much upvotes in the following scenario:
First, a user asks a non-trivial question, which turns out to be non-trivial enough not to get an ...
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1answer
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How do I know I won't lose all my work in math.SE?
Lately I've been wondering if it was remotely possible that my questions and answers (or any other user's) got lost by any kind of malfunction. Is there some kind of backup that ensures all the great ...
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3answers
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Congrats to Ross Millikan AND Davide Giraudo
This just in. Ross Millikan has joined J.M. in the exclusive club of users who have cast at least 10000 votes. Congrats and thanks!
As per Julien's suggestion I'm also soliciting opinions from ...
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Why can't we use $MathJax$ in username?
Why can't we use $MathJax$ or other characters in username?
I'd recommend
this on SE network.
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1answer
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Adding a special close reason for exam questions
Over on this meta question, anorton wrote
I propose a policy that if someone reports that a question is part of a take-home test, we have a 4 step process:
We close the question as soon as ...
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No Take-Home exam disclosure feature suggestion
I posted this originally as an answer to Posting exam questions, but it is actually a feature suggestion if the community deems it useful.
What about adding a clickable box upon question ...
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1answer
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Organizing Your Greatest Hits
I am aware of this post and thought I'd revive the question. It's nice to see a history of all of my posts arranged by # of votes, times, etc. But I have a growing list of "greatest hits" that are ...
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1answer
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Pausing questions - feature request
Sometimes, I ask a question, and a few minutes later realize my question is ambiguous and/or unclear and/or would benefit from a major rewrite. At this point, I kind of "panic" and frantically try ...
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1answer
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How to search in favorite questions?
As the number of my favorite questions increase, it becomes harder to find them in the list. Is there a way to search in my favorite questions?
Also, would it be possible to search in another user's ...
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Participation for the main site
When we are in meta and we click on user, we can sort them by participation. According to the description, it measures the activity.
I suggest to make something similar for the main site, for ...
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Would it be OK to ask people not to vote up my partial answer to a really good question?
Sometimes I see a highly voted excellent question on the Unanswered list and have some useful things to say that fall short of fully answering the question. But if I leave an answer with my partial ...
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Proposition of Separate Box for “Your Work”
Problem
After becoming a member of this site, to ask a question, I have spent a lot of time trying to answer and help others (as well as ask questions myself). From what I've noticed in my couple of ...
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Review: why is there highlight only on suggested edits?
When a suggested edit can be reviewed, we can see this:
However, it seems we don't have anything similar of other kinds of reviews, like "First posts" or "Close question". Why this? Can we do the ...
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Title and $\LaTeX$
This is not a question. Just a request.
This Issue has been discussed previously and I think this can be implemented technically as well.
Writing title all in latex disables the options like "Open ...
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Remember own LaTeX commands
In my LaTeX writings I always use the same abbreviated commands, since many years. For example, I use "\z" for "\langle" and "\x" for "\rangle", or "\fr" for "\displaystyle\frac", and so on..
Is it ...
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1answer
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Latexify 'Questions that may already have your answer'
It's just terribly difficult to read the current 'Questions that may already have your answer'
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Ability to Vote Down Comments
It would be nice to be able to vote down comments.
Sometimes I find users leaving very unhelpful one sentence complaints about questions and/or answers, but it is not nearly serious enough to warrant ...
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Add “Notify” option
At mathoverflow.net there is an "Notify" box where you can choose to get emails about any updates on questions you choose. It would be great to have the same thing at MSE.
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1answer
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A “selected posts” box / sorting option on the profile page.
It's always been an issue that elementary posts get more attention than more advanced stuff. I don't think anything can be done about this in terms of reputation; votes are votes. Even so, I'd ...
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Embedding vector images
Many modern browsers can without trouble interpret vector images, like SVG. Is it possible to add support for these?
Edit:
As pointed out by Rahul Narain in the comments, the request for SVG support ...
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1answer
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“Leave Open” is missing!
When you review a close vote, you'll get:
You click on Close and to get to the options:
duplicate
...
When you click on the close under the body of the question itself, you can't vote for ...
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2answers
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Scaling votes for closing (and reopen) a question
As the question about the beauty of mathematics was closed, reopened and there is already a close vote again.
For sure it is possible that we close and reopen the question several times, I think for ...
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Why are there requirements for duplicated questions?
Today I found a questions to be a duplicate, and I even remembered that I gave an answer to the non-duplicate. As I tried to close the duplicate as a duplicate, it told me I can't choose the question ...
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Could “Ask Question” dialog be more helpful?
The Ask Question dialog has an appropriate faint overlay text in the Title input area:
what's your math question? be specific.
(Aside: this seems to suggest ...
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user on an editing spree
One of us has edited over 50 old questions in the last 50 minutes, mostly just retagging them. Is there any way to stop this? [note --- I have flagged one of the questions for moderator attention, and ...
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Feature request: Save Question (and Answer) as Draft option
Sometimes a question pops into my mind a mere 5 minutes before I have to run an errand. In that situation, I can either: (a) write the question down on paper and ask it later, or (b) ask the question ...
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1answer
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No longer relevant comments
The following scenario frequently happens: member $M_1$ answers a question, but he makes a typo that member $M_2$ points out. So $M_2$ leaves a comment, $M_1$ corrects the answer. If this correction ...
